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The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.

Alice Hegan Rice

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Alice Hegan Rice
Age: 72 †
Born: 1870
Born: January 11
Died: 1942
Died: February 10
Novelist
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Shelbyville
Kentucky
Alice Caldwell Hegan
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Beauty
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Possessiveness
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Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.
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any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.
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even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.
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The arbitrary division of one's life into weeks and days and hours seemed, on the whole, useless. There was but one day for the men, and that was pay day, and one for the women, and that was rent day. As for the children, every day was theirs, just as it should be in every corner of the world.
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Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect vision of the Divine, and show it to others when we are disturbed with human thoughts and personal problems. It is only when we are quite still and receptive that God can think His thoughts into us and use us for His purposes.
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